| Year |
History |
| 1004 |
May have been
encountered by Viking voyager Thorvard Ericsson |
| 1497 |
Met by John Cabot who
kidnapped three of tribe |
| 1501 |
Basque, Spanish,
French, British, and Irish fishing boats began fishing the Grand Banks
every summer |
| 1519 |
Fishermen began
coming ashore to dry their catch and trade |
| 1527 |
Basques established
a whaling station on Canada coast |
| 1534 |
Met Jacques Cartier
and began trading |
| 1541 |
Cartier tried, but
failed, to establish a permanent settlement on the St. Lawrence River |
| 1564 |
Epidemic |
| 1570 |
Epidemic |
| 1583 |
British Sir Humphrey
Gilbert attempted to settle Newfoundland but failed due to weather |
| 1586 |
Typhus epidemic |
| 1604 |
Permanent French
trading posts established |
| 1605 |
Champlain settled in
Nova Scotia's Annapolis Basin |
| 1607 |
Trade hostilities
caused Tarrateen War which broke out between the Bashaba's Penobscot
confederacy and the Micmac and their Maliseet allies |
| 1610 |
Jesuit missionaries
arrive at Port Royal |
| 1613 |
British destroyed
both the Mont-Deserts mission and Port Royal |
| 1616 |
French had rebuild
Port Royal |
| 1617 |
Epidemic |
| 1619 |
British return and
burned Port Royal for a second time but the French rebuilt the post |
| 1628 |
British defeated
French fleet at Port Royal |
| 1629 |
Sir William
Alexander attempted to establish a British settlement with Scottish
settlers at Acadia |
| 1632 |
Treaty of St.
Germain-en-Laye restored Quebec and Maritimes to France; the French
reoccupied Port Royal, expelled the Scots, and burned the British
trading post on the Penobscot River |
| 1633 |
French attacked
British post at Machias, Maine and warned Boston traders to remain south
of Kennebec River |
| 1654 |
Robert Sedgwick's
fleet from Boston captured Port Royal and the other French settlements
on the Bay of Fundy |
| 1667 |
Acadia was returned
to France by the Treaty of Breda |
| 1688 |
King William's War
(1688-97) between Britain and France brought Micmac into conflict as a
member of the Abenaki Confederation; Abenaki and Micmac raids terrorized
New England throughout the war |
| 1701 |
Raids resumed with
the Queen Anne's War (1701-13) |
| 1704 |
French repulsed
British at Port Royal |
| 1707 |
Port Royal fought
off two more British attacks |
| 1710 |
British captured
Port Royal |
| 1713 |
Treaty of Utrecht
gave Acadia and Newfoundland to Great Britain; British renamed Acadia
Nova Scotia |
| 1717 |
New England began
expansion into Abenaki and Micmac territories who resisted |
| 1724 |
Micmac raided
British garrison at Annapolis Royal killing two and wounding several in
revenge for British raid |
| 1725 |
Abenaki, Maliseet,
and Micmac signed treaties with New England |
| 1744 |
King George's War
between Britain and France; Micmac and Maliseet began attacking British
outposts; French fail in two attempts to take Port Royal but British
army became ineffective |
| 1748 |
French ended their
support for the Micmac on Cape Breton thus reducing violence |
| 1749 |
Micmac attacked
British settlements at Chebucto and Canso; the British ultimately
offered £10 for every Micmac scalp or pris |
| 1752 |
Micmac signed a
treaty with the British |
| 1755 |
French and Indian
War (1755-63).began, Micmac raids began in Nova Scotia; 7,000 Acadians
deported but many escaped to fight alongside the Micmac |
| 1756 |
British began paying
£30 for Micmac warrior scalps and £25 for women and children prisoners |
| 1760 |
Micmac, Maliceet,
and Passamaquoddy signed treaty with British |
| 1779 |
Last of Micmac
accepted peace with the British |
| 1991 |
Aroostook Band of
Micmac of Maine received federal recognition |
